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Originally Posted by MartinSE
So, you see no difference between murdering innocent children and drive-by shootings, gang warfare and drug selling gone wrong?
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I see the seriousness of all of the killings. Do you? The media decries we have a gun violence problem and the solution is to deprive the Rights of law abiding citizens while going soft on criminals. Criminals don't get a conceal carry permit, they do it illegally. The vast majority don't buy their guns at stores, they buy them on the street.
If you want to be honest in defining a problem we have to recognize that 54% of gun deaths are by suicide. Also, not done with a AR style rifle, by the way.
Let's look at 2020
Gun Deaths, 45,222
Suicide 24,420
Homocide 19,384 (16,000 murders, 3,000 gang related) includes 513 mass shooting victims
Accidental 1,418
Mass Shooting (4 or more people) 513
The false narrative that we have an AR problem should tell everyone it is an agenda driven issue, not a problem solving issue. The AR is one type of rifle. Each year less than 400 people are killed by rifles of all kinds.
Another truth. In 2020, cell phones caused 1.6 million automobile crashes, injuring 424,000 people and killing 3,100. Shouldn't we be discussing some common sense cell phone control? Nobody needs a smart phone, after all.